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I have a further quibble with amanda, it would appear. I set up a bunch of backup targets for a particular host. The selfcheck failed miserably - apparently

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, Jun 1, 2000

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I have a further quibble with amanda, it would appear. I set up a
bunch of backup targets for a particular host. The selfcheck failed
miserably - apparently due to a deadlock between amandad and
selfcheck. Both were blocked writing to their respective ends of the
pipe, and presumably, the pipe buffer had filled.

I had a quick look at the amandad state machine, but it occurred to
me that there might well be some kind of communications issues with
passing that much data to amanda anyway (does amandad reassemble a
stream of udp packets correctly?), so I didn't try to make it fully
asynchronous, but it doesn't look too awkward.

For some context, I have a NetApp filer that I'd like to back up
using an external system (this being an i386 running Linux). Needless
to say, the data on the filer is rather voluminous, so I was planning
to slice it up into a boatload of little directories that are
comfortably smaller than a single tape. Not a fantastic solution, but
the first one that occurred to me :P

Does the above behaviour count as a bug, or is it merely outside
spec?

m.

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